Your whole family and your first love could have died, you don't get to adopt an attitude of wounded indignation in this relationship.
The poem! The stockings lolol. Happy Christmas, MGS!!! Thanks for the 3 chapter treat. ヾ(☆▽☆)
As soon as he gave that crap apology I prayed for The Truck to finish him off only for it to get the mum instead. (╯°Д °)╯╧╧
Thanks so much for your translation, Moonflower Gems!!! Totally sold on supporting the official and in my birthday month too.
I wonder if Korean academics or anyone has ever studied the prevalence of extreme sexual violence in BL manhwas and what motivates the creators. Yes, there is "dark romance" (which isn't enough of an explanation because there are many ways to do "dark" it doesn't *have* to be rape, or the ML at the very least doesn't have to be the rapist) but even in the so called "lighter" titles, sexual assault and rape are incredibly common (MC is stumbling drunk but ML takes it as a green light). I'm just curious at this point? Is it really only to satisfy the market...?
Is it the same in the straight titles? GL? I read GL manga and manhua mostly and they are never this extreme although some do have the predatory lesbian trope. (I am also, admittedly, a lot more selective with what I read for GL than BL. )
I dropped Painter in the Night and I think I'm destined to do the same here, despite being invested in the MC's story. I read maybe a third of this chapter because I scrolled rapidly through all the horrors.
I swear these authors are trolling us with the same three plots but also they work too hard for it to be trolling.
As simple as that. That empathethic assessment of that girl and her actions was the simplest thing to arrive at. No idea why it was beyond so many.
Ah, I appreciate this chapter focus on the particular difficulties queer couples experience when it comes to initimate partner violence. When the state doesn't recognise their identity and relationship it makes them more vulnerable.
Couldn't this just stay a family drama and our boy could date someone ELSE? This dynamic is wonderful. I'm probably gonna drop it when it gets weird.
This such a series of overly contrived unneccessary complications. I'm bored.
It is endlessly frustrating what simplistic moralising happens on this site from people whose own lives would not bear scrutiny if someone wrote about it for public consumption. Is it truly so difficult to look at this situation and conclude that 1. She crossed boundaries, should be sorry and apologise. She has stuff to deal with and she can't have it spill over like that. 2 Her actions came from a more complicated and entangled place than simply being a bitch? There was so much to read in between the lines of her story that she herself did not (and perhaps could not) articulate in the moment.
It's incredible the kind of toxic MLs who get a pass if they get in a good sob story and grovel but let a female character's toxicity manifest in the unforgivable crime of signing someone up for dating sites and she's written off. Her sob story isn't the right one—unforgivable! I appreciate when creators show that not everyone abused in this way turns into a squee adorable character who heroically overcomes it all. And shows that toxicity in a way that isn't "I need to work it out through extremely violent controlling behaviour." I was rolling my eyes through her explanation too but damn these comments made me gather myself quick.
Moonflower Gems you're the best. I took one look at that watermarked gibberish and tapped right back out in 0.5 seconds. Was relieved to get another notification. I have no problem returning for the best.
The bar is beneath hell. Satan, in his confusion, has agreed to help us look for it because no way in HELL she's trying get him to be impressed and amazed that the man picked him up to take him home to the place they live! This has to be a set up Do yoon put together to fuck with Yejun.
The writer went out of their way to give you Haegyeong's backstory in order to establish that his behaviour is not because he is stupid, naive or a masochist. What he is is someone who grew up in an abusive household. That kind of environment literally rewires your mind. He had to get a restraining order even after his parents divorced. The only person who could truly understand his experience couldn't stand to see him. This left him vulnerable to a childhood friend who was nice sometimes but eventually indulged in abusive behaviour himself: isolating him from potential support systems, positioning himself as the only one who cares etc. When this is the environment that has fundamentally shaped your sense of self and how you look at the world it is incredibly difficult to break out of it, even when you gain enough knowledge to know that you need to.
Think about all the bad habits you have, the things about yourself that you know need to change and yet have done absolutely nothing about. Or you did and then you fall back into old patterns. If you're stupid, fair enough, but that's a you problem, no reason to project, seek help...
Anyway, I don't like Kwonlim either, he seems to have his own creepy agenda. Yuck. What went down in that family home.
I wish I could be excited about any of this. Unfortunately, I already thought the 10000 chapters long flashback was a tedious slog that needlessly swerved into creepy I-raised-you-then-effed-you territory. I'm the one that needs a memory wipe.
I thought this turned into an interracial romance. We need a 23andme investigation into that dick's ancestry.
Now, no one can tell me he wasn't set up. How can you KNOW this was a dangerous job and send him by himself like he has some kind of immunity...
Moonflower Gem, please don't let the bots discourage you from uploading chapter 3 because that translation might as well have been ancient hieroglyphics to me :'(. Otherwise, praying for official soon, I don't like struggle and this title seems cute, I will pay. (￣∇￣")
This read like three seasons worth of story smooshed into one. Ricky's plot to use Jaewoo as a pawn to trap Rohan was the first. We could have gotten a more fleshed out story about that rivalry between Risky and Rohan alongside the whatever between Risky and Jaewoo. (That way an actual reason/motivation for burning down a whole town could have been developed !) Second season would be Jaewoo's rise as a mafia boss with Rohan. Right now he just looks like a kid who went to gym on a free membership trial please be serious. (We could have gotten more insight into Risky + Doctor's backstory too.) Then the third could be Risky and Jaewoo reunion as equals in whatever this nonsense Centineo blah blah is.
Sigh. I just skimmed the last 5 chapters. I'm out. Toodles!